The Architecture of the high performance storage system (HPSS)
D. Teaff, Bob Coyne, Watson, D · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 1998
The rapid growth in the size of datasets has caused a serious imbalance in I/O and storage system performance and functionality relative to application requirements and the capabilities of other system components. The High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is a scalable, next-generation storage system that will meet the functionality and performance requirements of large-scale scientific and commercial computing environments. Our goal is to improve the performance and capacity of storage systems by two orders of magnitude or more over what is available in the general or mass marketplace today. We are also providing corresponding improvements in architecture and functionality. This paper describes the architecture and functionality of HPSS. Introduction The rapid improvement in computational science, processing capability, main memory sizes, data collection devices, multimedia capabilities, and integration of enterprise data are producing very large datasets. These datasets range fro...